Summary: Early Export Trade
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The English settlers imported English horses, cattle, pigs and sheep. There was a good export trade in wool, tallow and hides – often to the port of Bristol. The main centre of the timber trade was the Blackwater area where Sir Walter Raleigh was a partner in a business exporting unfinished such as barrel staves and planking for shipbuilding. This was a commercial success and land which had been rented at 6d an acre in 1587 was worth five times as much in a few years.
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